Coronation Street will highlight the impact of loneliness on older people – when Audrey Roberts tells friends she tried to take her own life.
Audrey, played by Sue Nicholls, will reveal an overdose that left her in hospital last month was not an accident, as she had claimed to her doctor.
In emotional scenes to be shown next Monday, she confides in Roy, Rita, Claudia and Ken that the upsetting incident was in fact a suicide attempt.
